Furniture Series

The Furniture Series addresses issues of body image, personal experience, and memory by combining photographs and autobiographic writing with appropriated furniture. This series shares personal stories of an eating disorder that both reveal and conceal memories. Each piece is experiential. The viewer is enticed to interact with the pieces by searching through drawers or objects that have hidden text and photographs within them.

The piece titled The Dialogue consists of two chairs facing each other as if joined in conversation and confronting each other in battle. Conversations occur within the text that is embroidered on the fabric of the chair. The text and images of a figure transferred onto the fabric bring the chairs to life, such as a memory of what may have occurred in the past.

Eating Rituals examines the relationship between food and rituals of anorexia and bulimia. Working with imagery and text fused to dinnerware, secrets about eating rituals typically kept private are revealed.

Hidden Secrets is a desk that has images of a woman concealed within drawers. Autobiographical writing obsessively covers every surface of the interior space. The piece reflects on self-image and is intended to be inspected and upon closer examination, secrets are exposed.